Joe Arpaio’s Message To Celebrities

“America’s toughest sherriff” has a message for celebrities visiting Maricopa County for the Superbowl:

Stay out of trouble.

So for the football player who might get into a bar fight or the starlet who might drive drunk, consider yourself warned:

“(They’ll) be treated the same as anyone,” Arpaio said Wednesday. “Let the players know that. And Paris better take a limousine. Somebody better tell her that she is in Maricopa County, not Los Angeles County.

“It’s a tough county to be in if you do something wrong. Especially the way I run the law enforcement.”

If it comes to it, Arpaio says he has a “pair of pink underwear, a bologna sandwich and a spot in a dirty old prison tent for Tom Brady, Eli Manning or, most certainly, Paris Hilton”.

Hmmm, a little googling brought up this interesting newsblurb from May 2007, when she was sentenced to 45 days in an LA jail.  It Seems Arpaio has set his sights on Hilton at that time, as well:

…because of some serious overcrowding in Los Angeles jails, she may not have to serve the complete sentence.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says he’s spoken to the chief of jails in Los Angeles and offered to house Hilton at Tent City.

“I just made an offer,” Arpaio said. “Instead of reducing her sentence, which I feel is wrong, why not bring her over here? We can incarcerate her here. She can do her time over here.”

And according to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s department, the Los Angeles County Sheriff is considering the proposal.

Well, luckily for Paris it never came to pass. But if she’s planning on visiting Phoenix for the Superbowl, she’d better keep her nose clean.

Hat tip: Crime Scene KC

Afghan Student/Writer Sentenced To Death For Insulting Islam

I’ll tell you what I’m insulted by –I’m insulted that this kind of Islamofascist bullcrap is still going on in a country we supposedly liberated.

Gateway Pundit has been bumping this post all week (but not today) and I’ve been meaning to do a post about it, too. There is an e-petition at the bottom of the post that you can sign to help spare this man’s life.

Afghan student-writer Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh was sentenced to death for insulting Islam.

The 23 year-old student and writer downloaded an anti-Islamic report from the internet in 2007 relating to the role of women in Islamic societies and handed copies out to his friends.

For this, an Afghan court sentenced him to death for the crime of blasphemy:

The Independent is launching a campaign today to secure justice for Mr Kambaksh. The UN, human rights groups, journalists’ organisations and Western diplomats have urged Mr Karzai’s government to intervene and free him. But the Afghan Senate passed a motion yesterday confirming the death sentence.

The MP who proposed the ruling condemning Mr Kambaksh was Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, a key ally of Mr Karzai. The Senate also attacked the international community for putting pressure on the Afghan government and urged Mr Karzai not to be influenced by outside un-Islamic views.

You can help…
Add your weight to the campaign by urging the Foreign Office to demand that his life be spared. Sign our e-petition at www.independent.co.uk/petition.

Tom Burnett Sr Makes A Plea To The People Of Somerset, PA

Alec Rawls says in an email, that The Memorial Project gave only five days public notice for this Saturday’s public meeting in Somerset. He and Tom Burnett are going to try to crash the meeting, and are calling on the population of Somerset to come out and help protest the terrorist memorializing design.

Here is the ad copy for Tom’s call to action, which will be published in color in tomorrow’s Somerset Daily American:

 A plea from Tom Burnett Sr. to the wonderful people of Somerset

My son Tom confronted a terrible moment of truth. Faced with a plot against our nation, he and the other heroes of Flight 93 fought back, and at the cost of their lives, foiled that plot to destroy the White House or the Capitol. Now it is time for the rest of us to face our moment of truth. Flight 93 has been re-hijacked, and I am requesting that if you can, you go down to the public meeting of the Memorial Project at Somerset Courthouse Saturday, sign up to comment at the end, and demand that a proper investigation be conducted.

THIS was no accident:

The Memorial Project held an open design competition in time of war, in-

viting the entire world to enter. Guess who joined in? That group of trees that sits roughly in the position of the star on an Islamic flag is the crash site. Who do YOU think is being memorialized here?

A second Islamic feature that I also protested when I served on the Stage II jury is the minaret-like Tower of Voices, formed in the shape of a crescent, with its top cut at an angle so that its crescent arms reach up into the sky.

Upturned crescents are a standard mosque adornment in many Muslim countries.

Every iota of this original Crescent of Embrace design remains completely intact in the so-called “redesign.” That is why Congressman Tancredo asked the Park Service this autumn to scrap the existing design entirely. Instead of getting rid of the giant crescent as Tancredo demanded back in 2005, architect Paul Murdoch only disguised it with a few surrounding trees.

Also remaining are those damned 44 glass blocks on the flight path. (There were forty passengers and crew and four Islamic terrorists on Flight 93.) The Memorial Project acknowledges the 40 blocks inscribed with the names of my son and the other heroes, and they acknowledge the three inscribed with the 9/11 date, but they pretend not to know about this one: the huge glass block that dedicates the entire site.

When this 44th glass block is pointed out, Project Partners say that it can’t be counted with the other blocks because it is not the same size. What? Because the capstone to the terrorist memorializing block count is magnificent, that is supposed to make it okay?

For every Islamic or terrorist memorializing feature of the crescent design, the Park Service has another equally phony excuse. Please read the exposé below of the Park Service’s fraudulent investigation, and please come to the meeting on Saturday to demand state and Congressional investigations into the Flight 93 memorial.

Tom Burnett Sr.

February 2008

PDF of ad copy here.

Non-locals who want to help, please contact your senators and representatives!

Coulter Pulls Out All The Stops

You’ve got to hand it to her. She knows how to get attention, and get her message across, better than just about anyone.

Most voters aren’t going to take the time to read stuff like this and this and this.

But they will remember this interview.

She knows that a lot of primary voters are holding their noses and voting for McCain because polling data is showing that he is the only one who can beat Hillary.

She’s saying…”Screw that. If it has to be between McCain and Hillary…I vote for Hillary. She’s the more conservative of the two”.

And no matter what one thinks of Ann Coulter, that is enough to give even the moderates pause.

This may just mark the turning point for the “Straight Talk Express”.

UPDATE (Feb 1):

Ann says she’s serious.

Hot Air has the video from A. C.’s appearance today on The Neil Caputo Show.

At any rate, the latest polls are showing a widening gap between Mitt and McCain.

UPDATE (Feb 2):

Rasmussen has them tied at 30% each.